Someone Is Going To Make Your Product

[a Polaroid Camera] Places Before You A Thing That Is More Of The Thing Than The Thing Was.

We Took Nothing From Anybody. We Gave A Great Deal To The World. The Only Thing Keeping Us Alive Is Our Brilliance. The Only Thing That Keeps Our Brilliance Alive Is Our Patents.

If This Is Preparation For Life, Where In The World, Where In The Relationship With Our Colleagues, Where In The Industrial Domain, Where Ever Again, Anywhere In Life, Is A Person Given This Curious Sequence Of Prepared Talks And Prepared Questions, Questions To Which The Answers Are Known?

Famous In Our Circles Is The Story Of The Visiting English Banker Who In 1948 Upon Seeing Our Model 95 Camera Commented, 'very Interesting, But Why Would One Want A Picture In A Minute?'

As I Review The Nature Of The Creative Drive In The Inventive Scientists That Have Been Around Me, As Well As In Myself, I Find The First Event Is An Urge To Make A Significant Intellectual Contribution That Can Be Tangible Embodied In A Product Or Process.